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from: R. Clayton McKee
date: 2003-01-22 11:36:28
subject: Re: Independant Nation

On 22 Jan 2003 at 12:00, Russ Jernigan wrote:

> >Rules:
> >
> >1: Congress shall make no rule solely for the sake of having rules.
> >
> >2: Congress shall make no rule attempting to legislate the behaviour
> >of human beings.
> >
> >3: Congress shall recognize that a crime constitutes a physical act
> >perpetrated on a fellow human being against that second person's
> >will.
> >
> >4: It's your life, it's your fault.
> 
> >5.  Congress shall work for a wage no higher than the highest grade
> >of Federal Civil Service (believe me, that's a good deal less than
> >they make currently) and shall NOT have the right to vote pay raises
> >for themselves. Pay raises shall be by vote of each
> >congresscritter's constituents.
> 
> 6: Congresscritters are required to participate in the same great
> government social security plan as the rest of us.

7.  Election campaigns shall be financed from the general fund, and 
shall last no more than two weeks.   Bribery in the form of  
"campaign contributions" from ANY source shall be prohibited, as 
shall acceptance of same. Violators, having proven that they will not 
behave as members of a society, shall be permanently stripped of 
citizenship and civil rights, and the election shall be nullified and 
no replacement held until the next regular cycle.

(It occurred to me to simply have them shot but we'd blow the budget 
on bullets for the first couple of rounds.)               Albest,

                        Clayton

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